Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-03-26

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hall NAV be used aS one ROOM il NAV be iSo-
late,i TO any degree desirable 1t would he
entirely possible to separate the two by
means Of sliding doors, in which event
the opening from the room into the
passage would have to he a little
narrower than shown on the drawings This
room could he used as the office Of physi-
clan, or OF gentleman who did more or less
business al home, 10y making the front vesti-
buie about six inches deeper. A separate en-
trance could be provided In this event, a
door from the room into the passage leading
10 The living part Of the house would be a
necessity. The circular bay end of this room
would present an attractive feature. The
windows in this part OF the room might be
placed about four feet from the floor, in
which event book shelves could lie arranged
below them. The window in front goes TO
within seventeen inches of the floor. Under
the stairway and leading from this reception
room is a very liberal closet, which would
render this room much more babitable In
this closet there should be a small window
Leading from the passage is the stairway,
two closets and two places which may be
used for hat rack One might be used for
a hat rack and the other for an umbrella
stand-as to the closets, one for the gentle
men of the house and the other by the ladies
The one nearest the stairway would probably
be chosen for the former. In it might be
placed overshoes, coats, hats. etc. Thus the
hall will be comparatively free from every
thing excepting that belonging to visitors or
callers. A closet to be used 10y the ladies
alone will never be fully appreciated until
they have the use Of such a one. And then, to
use a common expression, they could hardly
understand how they ever kept house without
it The little. passage in which this closet is
placed is separated from the hall by a door.
There is another door leading out of this
passage into the kitchen. Thus there are two
doors between the kitchen and the front part
of the house. This arrangement has in mimi
the isolation of the kitchen from the other
rooms in a way to prevent the passage Of the
usual kitchen odors.
While the stairways in this house are con
venient and easy Of construction, there is
certain amount of complication in their ar
rangement which makes them difficult of de-
scription so as To be understood by those not
accustomed 10 examining floor plans For
this reason will consider myself fortunate if
/ make myself understood by all alike. In
the first place, there is the stairway from the
front hall to the floor above and out from
the kitchen 10 the landing of the front stair
way. and another from the kitchen 10 the
cellar. The landing Of the front Stairway and
the landing from the kitchen stairway is in
common; that is, it Is the same. For the pur
pose Of making this understood l Will say
that one might go up the stairway from the
front hall TO the landing some eight steps
above and from thence down into the kitchen,
or he can turn right face and go on the land
ing to the second floor This part of the stairs
is used by the people coming up from the
kitchen as well as by those from the front
hall However, the kitchen stairway is sep
arated from the landing by a door. There
is, as WELL door at the foot of this kitchen
stairway. In coming down stairs from above
one may turn 10 the right, open a door and
go on down into the kitchen, or he may turn
10 the left and go down the front stairway
into the hall.
Thus it will be seen that we have a COM
blnation stairway. If such it may Ire called.
1t Is front and rear stairway together, with
separate entrance from both parts of the
house. one from the kitchen and one from the
front hall II must be confessed that there is
a certain amount of compromise in this sort
of an arrangement, hut there would also lie a
compromise If there were an independent rear
stairway. II would either increase the ex-
pense of the bous. or it would sacrifice ut
least one large bed room. Furthermore. even
In the latter event. the house would have 10
lie made larger and there would he waste
room on account nt extra balls and passages.
BY this arrangement, shown on the plans,
everything Is concentrated and without the
serious compromIss which All extra cost or d
smaller number of rooms would imply TO those
who have only 8 little over 81, 600 10 spend
for house.
The bead room for the stairway coming
up from the kitchen is secured under the bath
tub In ths hath roam inInsdiately above.